Heh, Richard S. Lowry follows up on the last post with:
forgive my ignorance, but what does Hotel Tango stand for? I googled it and Hotel Tango has some significance in the Navy semaphore world.
Which forced me to google “semaphore.”
Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in this military language of ours, where we assume that everyone can rattle off the entire military phonetic alphabet.
Hotel is the phonetic for the letter “H” and Tango is the phonetic for “T.” So hotel tango is our little weird OPFOR way of saying “Hat Tip.” It’s, you know, a milblogger thing.
